Join us and have fun.
🗓 Classes every Tuesday from 6:00pm to 7:20pm
🎉 Social dance from 7:20pm to 8:40pm
📍 Redfern Community Centre
🤗 Newcomers always welcome! As a dance style, Forró has influences from European ballroom dances and more recently from Caribbean dances. "Forró music has been described as “a mixture of ska with polka in overdrive”. Although there are numerous variants of the dance,
the basic steps involve a couple dancing very close together. The lead’s left hand holds the follower’s right hand as in a waltz, with the lead’s right arm around the follower’s back and the follower’s left arm around the lead’s neck. Beyond these fundamentals, moves such as spins, fancy heel flourishes, and lifting the partner to sit on one's knee entered through the influence of salsa and other Caribbean dances. Still other styles may have partners, called forrozeiro/forrozeiras, slightly or much farther away from each other while dancing. (Adapted from http://mandingueira.com/2008/03/24/capoeira-e-danca-part-3-forro/)
This project wants to bring the vibrant energy of Brazilian Forró dance to Sydney. Besides dance classes, the students also will learn about Brazilian culture and social characteristics. We’d like to let the Forró community grow at its own pace. To achieve that, we will volunteer as teachers letting students learn for free.
